What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
USA COVID Deaths 2020: 581K (with many not reported)
USA Driving Deaths 2020: 42K (highest in 13 years, 8% increase attributed to COVID)So way more than 1000% higher from COVID vs driving, which a huge increase in the driving risk believed to be caused by COVID-induced pattern changes in driving.
Wow... that's surprisingly low!
No kidding, I figured it was way, way higher as well. Still at 40K I want to see that risk go away. That's nearly 1000 per state, per year. That means nearly everyone knows someone who died from that.
That said, someone we know died from car accident (single vehicle, totally her own fault, no one else involved) last night.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
USA COVID Deaths 2020: 581K (with many not reported)
USA Driving Deaths 2020: 42K (highest in 13 years, 8% increase attributed to COVID)So way more than 1000% higher from COVID vs driving, which a huge increase in the driving risk believed to be caused by COVID-induced pattern changes in driving.
Wow... that's surprisingly low!
No kidding, I figured it was way, way higher as well. Still at 40K I want to see that risk go away. That's nearly 1000 per state, per year. That means nearly everyone knows someone who died from that.
you know it doesn't work that way, but I know what your point was....
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's not how vaccines work. That's now OTC medicine works... for example, you get the Flu, and you take something for headache. It lessens the symptom, but does nothing to stop you from getting the virus. Vaccines on the other hand, are absolutely designed to stop you from getting it.
That's nice in theory. But here in the real world, what something is designed to do and what something does aren't the same. While the vaccine does reduce your chance of getting the virus, the primary purpose that people are getting it for is the discovery that the vaccines protects well against severe cases of the virus and can even lead to recovery from long term symptoms.
In the current, real world situation, the vaccine is one to reduce symptoms, not to stop you from getting the virus.
And we've had people we know infected after getting the vaccine.
A successful vaccination means you are fully immune and you don't get sick at all after exposed to the Covid-19 virus. An unsuccessful vaccination means your body never reaches full immunity after the 2 weeks following completion of vaccination.
So, for the small percentage of people the vaccination does not work, that's what I was referring to in the part I wrote that you left out of your quote. The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.
You can see for yourself what "at risk" actually means, and you can also see what the risk factors are. It is totally not as unknown as you think. There is tons of data now.
You can find all of this on the CDC website yourself instead of saying things that aren't true.
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Haven't posted anything in ML since like forever haha. I just published this video on Youtube. Just goofing around with some new gadgets I got the in the past week. Cheers!
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
A successful vaccination means you are fully immune and you don't get sick at all after exposed to the Covid-19 virus. An unsuccessful vaccination means your body never reaches full immunity after the 2 weeks following completion of vaccination.
So, for the small percentage of people the vaccination does not work, that's what I was referring to in the part I wrote that you left out of your quote. The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.That's not what it means. A vaccine is successful if it makes you "as immune" as you would be if you had already been infected. Which actually the vaccines are sometimes doing even better than that, which is mind blowing. This infection is changing the rules for everything.
But the reinfection rate is getting bad. That's part of the problem.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.
Yes, and it's only really effective against serious infections. Some of the vaccines (remember, whole regions of the world can't get the really effective ones and no children can - nor can people pick which they get) are only like 65% effective against infection, but nearly 100% effective in stopping a serious complication from infection.
So stopping the infection isn't even on the radar realistically. The name of the game is lowering infection rates to allow hospitals to have capacity while stopping serious infections to allow people to live and hopefully recover.
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@marigabyfrias said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Haven't posted anything in ML since like forever haha. I just published this video on Youtube. Just goofing around with some new gadgets I got the in the past week. Cheers!
OMG, a while Maggie has appeared!
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Just ordered our Starlink for our new home!
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Also working on getting the existing fiber sped up. We have fiber at 2Mb/s, jajaja.
I think we need more bandwidth than that.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Surprisingly made it to work today.
My back started giving me trouble Friday, by Saturday night I almost couldn't move without being in pain - and Had the tingling and numbness in my lower legs (which is normal for me..) Yesterday it got progressively worse until Bed time when I took some pain killers I have from the last time this happened.
Moving pretty slow today.
Gonna Suck.I had (still have) lots of pain and tingly numbness left over from a severe B12 deficiency. So be sure to get plenty of vitamins in you, even if that's not the cause.
Thanks for the advice , I'll have to double check that I'm getting enough.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ordered our Starlink for our new home!
Make sure we get a full review
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ordered our Starlink for our new home!
Make sure we get a full review
Ordered, but might take a while before it arrives.
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JUst got the photos taken of our old house for the sale. It looks SO good after all the updates we did and the professional cleaners came through!
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Surprisingly made it to work today.
My back started giving me trouble Friday, by Saturday night I almost couldn't move without being in pain - and Had the tingling and numbness in my lower legs (which is normal for me..) Yesterday it got progressively worse until Bed time when I took some pain killers I have from the last time this happened.
Moving pretty slow today.
Gonna Suck.I had (still have) lots of pain and tingly numbness left over from a severe B12 deficiency. So be sure to get plenty of vitamins in you, even if that's not the cause.
Thanks for the advice , I'll have to double check that I'm getting enough.
If it drops below a certain point, you have to get it back up with injections. Otherwise a basic multivitamin or B12 /B complex works fine.
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So many honeybees flying around my shrubberies. Might be a new hive around here somewhere.
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but the vaccines must be doing something. From where I sit, since the vaccines began rolling out in the US, the number of infections have dropped. In India, they're screaming out for Vaccines amongst other things, so I guess they think they're worthwhile.
I have people in their 80s who I care for, I don't want them dying before they have to, so if vaccines make their lives safer, then why not use them.
It's about protecting everyone, not just ourselves I believe.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
but the vaccines must be doing something. From where I sit, since the vaccines began rolling out in the US, the number of infections have dropped. In India, they're screaming out for Vaccines amongst other things, so I guess they think they're worthwhile.
I have people in their 80s who I care for, I don't want them dying before they have to, so if vaccines make their lives safer, then why not use them.
It's about protecting everyone, not just ourselves I believe.
They help, for sure. And they have risks, for sure. But it is very clear that the benefits outweight the costs, at least for normal adults. But if they are effective, in whatever way, then we need everyone to get them so that we can eliminate the threat. No vaccine is all that effective if only a few people get them.
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Heading to bed, last day in NY is tomorrow and it is going to be a busy one.
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Insane day here today. So many errands and meetings. It's my last day in NY.
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My house in Texas just went up for sale. If anyone is looking for a nice suburban place in Carrollton. We loved this house for eleven years, but we have moved away.
